Fates Mates & Pirates - 39. Chapter 39

Marc: Bridge of Vanguard of Serenity

We had dropped out of Jump and I had Bella standing between myself and Adam as we approached Serenity Base. Our escort had pulled off and was heading to their hangar bays while we headed to ours. Adam was busy pointing out various projects, including the new hangars we were about to land on, as Bella took it all in. I placed a hand on her shoulder and leaned into whisper.

“You OK?” She took a deep breath before answering.

“Yes Marc. I think I am.” I nodded.

“Just remember. You are in our base, in our space, and more importantly. You are in our home. Literally. You never have to leave the upper level if you don’t want to. And you can have two Marines escort you whenever you leave the suite.” She hugged me again.

“Thank you, Marc. For everything you and Adam are doing.” I kissed the top of her head.

“Welcome home Bella.”

“Brat. You’re just trying to make me cry again.” I snorted as she pulled back and hugged Adam. I watched as we entered the hangar, saluting as we crossed the threshold. 10 minutes later we were moving our gear through the Lock with Adam and myself being piped aboard the Base as is custom. Bella seemed to enjoy the fluff our Marines presented as we crossed the Dock heading for our suite. Bella was surprised when the lift opened and an entire platoon joined us for the trip down. Taylor and Mike stood next to me, and I pulled Mike in close. Wrapping an arm around him as I whispered into his ear. Then he turned to hug me. I gave him a quick kiss and sent him back to Taylor. Before I spoke aloud to everyone.

“For those of you that haven’t heard. I have commissioned the building of a ski area on this base. Anyone who wants, should be able to learn how to ski there.” That got some cheers as Bella looked on in amusement at everyone around her. The lift came to a stop, and we exited, heading for our suite. Taylor and Mike still live with us, so they followed along too as the Marines headed for their quarters as the Marines assigned to the suite took over the duty of guarding us.

Adam took Bella on a tour as I headed down to my office to check in with Beth. She had a load of work for me and was in the process of sending out the latest designs by our team concerning the ski area.

“Hey boss. How about a tropical beach on one level?” Beth asked. I was about to say no and stopped. I thought about it and looked back at her before shaking my head.

“Sure. Why not? I need to check the specs again though. I may have to create another level.” Her mouth hung open for a few heartbeats, then snapped shut as she gave me the look.

“Seriously?” I just nodded.

“Yup. Might as well. I could add beach dunes and everything. Not like I couldn’t produce waves to make it seem real.” The look she gave me was one of pure joy.

“Could you do that?”

“I will not know until I have someone look into it from an engineering perspective. Probably. I’ll add it to the list of things to do?” She giggled with delight as she clapped her hands together.

“Beach parties!” I laughed as I went into my office and fired up the systems. I worked through an hour’s worth of work when my Link chimed.

“Hi baby. Dinner time?”

“Yes, please love. And where did you pack the chocolates?” I gasped.

“I thought you did.” Unfortunately, he could hear the grin in my voice as I said it.

“Marc. Please tell me where you packed them.”

I sighed. “Are you going to save me any?”

“Yes love. I just wanted to have them out for after dinner.”

“They’re inside my armor gravtrunk. Half of them anyway. I sent the other half with Mike and Taylor for safe keeping.” He laughed when I finished telling him.

“OK. Thank you, love.”

“Love you more if you save me some.” I said, but all I got as a response was the Link shutting down. I laughed as I finished up the last report I had opened and shut down the system before heading up to the dining room.

Dinner was a talkative affair, as Taylor wanted to know more about the ski area and I broached the topic of a beach area. Adam turned to look at me.

“As in ocean beach.” I nodded as I ate.

“Dunes, waves, the whole bit.” His eyes went off the charts again as he smiled at me.

“Can we do that?”

“I’ll have to put some engineers on it, but I think we can.” Bella just shook her head in disbelief.

“I understand now why he calls you a monster.” I snorted.

“No Bella. I don’t think you do yet. But you’ll figure it out. Someday.” Adam just looked at me and mouthed Monster. One side of my mouth lifted in the smirk I am so known for and mouthed back. Yes Adam. Your monster. He blushed and Bella giggled at the sight. I took the time to tap out a request for an engineering team to be assembled to look at the project before we went to bed for the night.

Adam

Our families had arrived in the last two days. They were all now waiting in the gallery as Marc and myself waited inside the sterile birthing chamber. Aidan’s team was working on the growth chambers. They had started the process to ‘birth’ Joachim and Jasmine as they liked to call it. It sounded better than ‘decanting’ any day. Marc was just as nervous as I was as he stood next to me with his arm around my waist. I could feel him fighting the urge to dance in place as he watched. I squeezed his shoulder, which made him look up at me. Our eyes locked, and he smiled. I know my eyes sparkled, but I wasn’t prepared for what I saw in his. They were glowing, but looking deeper, I saw the monster himself. He was happy, and he was preparing for a whole new level of preparedness and protectiveness. If I thought Marc was protective before, it was nothing compared to what was coming out now. Our children would always be safe as long as Marc could issue orders. And he already has. Two members of our Security Service team, that were trained specifically for this moment, have been assigned to protect them as the personal guards. It wasn’t just our family that was here watching in the gallery. We had many of our friends here, too. Marc had told me to alert my friends to Casi Oceanus and Wallas Station. As he was passing through and would pick them up. He had several that had come up from Low Sec with his family to join us as well. The Suite was full of guests. Our surrogate parental team was also standing by in the viewing gallery. I was surprised when I found out it was 6 people. Marc explained it to me it would act as a training period for all of them as we worked everything out in our new home as a family. They actually lived on the same level as us in the suite for the past several months. I shook myself out of my thoughts as I felt Marc hold his breath, then released it as we heard the first cry come from Joachim. We separated as we watched the team clean up our son and run last checks on his health before Aidan turned to hand us a baby boy named Joachim.

“Happy Birthing Day Joachim.” I heard Marc whisper as he moved us closer to take him from Aidan’s arms. He pushed me forward to take our son from Aidan.

“Thank you Aidan.” I said quietly as Marc moved us back and shifted in front of me. He raised up and kissed my cheek before he talked softly to Joachim. I heard the whispers of, ‘Welcome home and we love you.’ I had tears streaming down my face as I held our son. One of the nursing staff brought us a bottle, and I held it up to Joachim’s lips. Just tapping it gently before he sucked the teat with his tiny mouth. That was all it took, and I was feeding our son for the first time.

Marc

I stood close with my arm around Adam’s waist as he fed our son and we waited for Jasmine to be released to the galaxy. I had everything arranged. Our surrogate family team was here in the viewing room. Their personal guards were here. Our friends and family were here. I watched and waited as Aidan’s team lifted Jasmine out of the unit and cleaned her up. We heard the first cry and Adam’s head popped up with tears in his eyes. The joy on his face and the sparkle in his eyes were off the charts. I know my own expression was exuberant joy as I waited. Finally, Aidan turned and took a step towards us as I moved Adam and Joachim towards our next addition to our family. I released Adam and took Jasmine from Aidan’s arms.

“Thank you and your team, Aidan.” They all dipped their heads towards us.

“You are most welcome, Marc and Adam.” The nurse approached again with another bottle for me as I turned towards Adam and fed our daughter. It took a few tries before she took the teat into her mouth and suckled it.

“Hello Jasmine. Happy Birthing Day.” She smiled as she suckled.

“Look. Joachim smiled too.” I nodded, as I was too choked up to say anything coherent. We stood like that for a few minutes before I regained control.

“Shall we introduce them now?” I asked as Adam tore his eyes off the children to look at me. He dipped his head and turned to my side, and we took a few steps forward to the viewing gallery. I raised my head and spoke slowly and softly. Knowing the pick-ups would convey my voice into the viewing area. “My dear friends and family. I would like you to meet the newest additions to the Alexander-Knight family. Joachim Brandon Alexander-Knight and Jasmine Seiko Alexander-Knight.” Adam had the blue bundle, and I had the pink bundle. We moved slowly past the viewing gallery so everyone saw them. The system had automatically lowered the sound of the cries of joy to not scare the children.

“They’re twins.” Said Jessica as we passed.

“Yes. Male and female, but twins.” My little sister was ecstatic with everyone else. Luckily, I had told them they wouldn’t be able to actually hold them until after the bonding period. That only lasts for two days as it is programed into their code who Adam and I were. Just 48 hours of us caring and talking to them locks in the ‘They are our parents’ thought in the kids. They would know us anywhere after that. Everyone in the family had made arrangements to stay for a few days to visit before they would leave and come back to spend time with the kids. It was actually how I was raised. It took a few discussions to help Adam understand how the process works and, in the end, Grandma Knight had talked with him, too. He was OK with everything now and made sure everyone knew it as he took over the scheduling of visitation for the first few months to not overwhelm the children with strangers.

We spent 20 minutes showing off the children as we fed, burped and let them sleep in our arms before we departed for the private area of the ‘Birthing Suite.’ Adam and I, with the two children, would live there for the next 72 hours. Under the watchful eye of the medical staff as the parent-child bond was created between us.

Three days later, we were tired as we listened to the Doctor before she released us to return to our suite with the children. I followed Adam as he headed straight for the children's bedroom. It was connected to ours and everything was set up. We had a feeding room set up next door with everything we needed to feed them in comfort. Changing stations, chairs, rockers, bottle cleaning, bottle heating, formula storage — you name it, we had it. The surrogate staff was on standby and helped clean the space as we worked out the feeding schedules. Adam even had a team design a table with twin baby seats so that one of us could feed them at the same time without having to actually hold them. We had already decided that was for emergencies only and we would feed them together and switch off at each feeding which child we actually fed, so they both got used to us taking care of them. We also made sure we were well rested, starting 3 days before the ‘Birthing Day.’ Finishing work ahead as far as we could. Newborns need to be fed often. In every 24-hour period, they may need to be fed up to 12 times or every two to four hours. We are prepared to do that ourselves for the first week at least, with our surrogate parents on standby to help if necessary. After that, we may have them take over some feedings as we will tire out, because we can’t just delegate the running of the House and The Five Sectors forever. It should work well as we have talked to various parents that have done it that way. Our only difference was we have twins.

Adam

We had been handling everything for the first two weeks of our children’s lives. Marc was leaning against me as we sat on the couch working. We had one moved into the bedroom so that we would be right next to the nursery. Our parents and grandparents will arrive individually during the next few weeks, which we have worked out a schedule to feed the kids twice during the day instead of us, under the watchful eyes of our surrogate parents. Our surrogates are taking the early night and early morning feedings while we take the middle of the night feedings. Last night was the first night, and it was fantastic to get a straight 5 hours of sleep. I was so happy Marc had us rest a few days before the Birthing Day. He is so protective of them. His head comes up at sounds I can barely hear. He listens, then goes back to what he is doing. One time he did it and sighed, before getting up. I followed as he walked in, taking Joachim out of his crib and changing his diaper.

“Yeah, that wasn’t gas.” He was actually smiling when he took the diaper between his thumb and forefinger. Stretching his arm out far away from him as he held it and dropped it into the refresher chute. He cleaned him up and kissed his head as he put him back to bed. Then he checked Jasmine. He made a face and pushed me out of the room. “She’s on the build up to blow too. Should be soon.” He said as we sat back down to work. It wasn’t 10 minutes later his head came up. “It’s time.”

I chuckled before I spoke. “I’ll take care of it, baby. You can finish your work.” He kissed me and went back to work as I changed Jasmine’s diaper. “Oh yeah. Who’s been feeding you all this food, anyway?” I asked as she gurgled a smile up at me. 10 minutes later, she was back to sleep in her crib. I walked out and Marc moved to let me sit.

“Full load?” He asked jokingly.

“Oh yeah. We’re not over feeding them, are we?”

“Not according to the autodoc and medical team. I have asked that twice now.”

“OK. It just looks like twice as much is coming out as going in.” He snorted and put his hand over his mouth to stifle a laugh as he nodded his agreement. We went back to work, then fed the kids before we went to eat ourselves, returning just in time to change them both again. We spent time reading and playing with the kids before they fell asleep again. Marc’s parents did the next feeding and played with them for an hour before they headed off to bed. Our surrogates took care of the early night feeding and changing. Then we were up again at 00:30 hours and 03:15 to feed, change and burp.

Marc

I woke at 06:00 and heard Adam in the nursery as I looked around. He must have let me sleep in for an extra hour. I crawled out of bed and padded into the nursery in my boxers. Adam and one of the surrogates were there. I stepped over and took Joachim out of his hands as I place him on my shoulder to burp. Jasmine spotted me and was trying to reach out.

“One at a time, Jasmine. Once I finish Joachim, I’ll pick you up too.” Adam just wrapped his arms around me from behind, placing his head on my other shoulder.

“Love you Marc.”

“Love you more, baby, but you are in the firing line back there. You might want to move.” I no sooner said that and Joachim spit up on me getting Adam, too. He snorted.

“Must be the monster junior gene at work.” I laughed as he grabbed a towelette, cleaning us all off. Once I had Joachim in bed, I turned and picked up Jasmine from Wanda. She smiled and warned me she has been projectile vomiting again. I gave a raised eyebrow to Adam.

“Are you going to hold us again?” I asked, as he laughed.

“Might as well and see if she has the monster junior gene too.” I had to laugh at him as Wanda shook her head, leaving to clean the feeding bottles in the next room. It wasn’t long before I heard it.

“Move, Adam.” He did just before she got my shoulder and back. Adam already had the towelette and was cleaning me off again. I kissed her head as I laid her down to sleep.

“I’m heading for the fresher now. Are you going to join me?” He chuckled as he moved in and kissed me.

“OK.” I actually didn’t have sex with him. I just wanted the closeness of it.

“Nothing like getting spit upon to say you are loved.” Adam nodded before he spoke.

“I should have known related to you it would be like this.” I pulled him into a hug and kiss.

“Love you too, Adam.”

“Love you more Marc.” We dried, dressed, and went to breakfast. I had a few meetings to attend, as did Adam. Then we would be back for the lunch time feeding and we would eat. Then back to work for a couple of hours. Then the afternoon nap, dinner feeding and dinner. More rest and as our parents took a turn at the evening feeding. And on it went for a few months.

Adam

I watched Marc as he read a report that had just came in. He even moved off our couch and paced the room while he obviously opened other information to look at. In the end, he sighed softly to himself. Another flurry of tapping out orders before he turned to me. The look on his face was interesting before he set his tablet down and lifted his left arm, and tapped out something. Suddenly, I heard the doors close on our floor. Sealing us in, or knowing Marc, keeping other people out. He had something he wants to talk about.

“We need to take a little trip. The children will come with us and we will be gone a week at most.” He said hesitantly. My eyebrows raised. Usually when I hear this tone from him, he is discussing one of our Black Projects that no one needs to have any information on.

“Where are you taking us?” I asked inquisitively.

“To the Unknown Sector.” He said assuredly, as he made his decision that it was time I knew about it. I had the feeling now was not the time to ask for more information.

“OK. When do we leave?”

“As soon as we get packed. We’ll need all the items for the kids. Strollers too and we’ll not be taking any of the children’s staff. Just Mike and Taylor, plus some Marines.” He said. That was more than I expected for him to tell me until we were on our way. And 30 minutes later, we were headed for a shuttle. All the while, Marc was giving instructions to Tabat and Ron. Telling them we would only be in contact at set times. This isn’t the first time we have left like this, but usually we give a few days’ notice that we are. Makes me even more curious as to what the Unknown Sector is.

Marc

It’s been two days since I loaded Adam and the kids onto a shuttle and Jumped us out to the location of our ride for this trip. Adam sat next to me in the cockpit as I turned us in for a landing. He said nothing as he looked over the ship with a discriminating eye before I brought us in for a landing. Mike and Taylor led the way off as two staff from the ship boarded to take our gravtrunks. Escorting us to the stateroom we would use.

Now we stand on the Bridge as the last Jump is made. Adam figured it out by the accents of the crew and the design of the ship. It is not one of ours. I’ve not been here myself yet, but the triad, Janek, Hugo and Rory, have kept me informed. Just like I told them, this is their last mission. Adam’s eyes widened as we pulled around from the Jump Area. Three very large Stations revolving around a planet. Oceans and continents were visible. As were the 16 vessels in orbit and attached to the stations. All copies of my Ghost Fleet ships, but only one is mine.

“That’s ANS Caelestis Anastassia.” Whispered Adam as he looked at me.

“It is. The others brought part of our Bonding gift.” I whispered back. Tightening my arm around his lower back. “This is the most secret of operations we have. As I speak, we have arrivals of people from the Core Worlds that are immigrating to our House. About 30,000 so far. But that is nothing compared to what we have found.” I paused, waiting as we turned again, and the three moons came into view as we settled in on course for the largest station. “Let’s wait until we are aboard Franklin Station first. Which is the station in front of us.” Adam kissed the top of my head and continued to watch as we maneuvered into position for the docking clamps to lock on.

We returned to the stateroom 10 minutes later to take over the kids from Mike and Taylor. Tossing them into the strollers while grabbing the travel bags before departing the ship. Adam was surprised as the Alexander-Knight House Guards in different uniforms came to attention as we were piped aboard.

“This is part of our new House Guards Division. They only operate here in the Unknown Sector. For reasons you will understand in a few minutes.” I said as we approached Janek. Adam wasn’t surprised as I kissed him when I hugged him or the fact he kissed me back. After greeting Adam with a hug, he turned to the little ones.

“Janek. This is Jasmine and Joachim.” I said as he kneeled down to see them better.

“They are so cute. Wait until you see ours.” He said with excitement.

“How soon?” I asked.

“We are discussing the mixes now. After our Bonding ceremony, we will have them seeded.” Janek said as he led us through a series of passageways until we entered his quarters, where the process repeated itself with Hugo and Rory.

Adam

I know there are things I don’t need to know about but this… An entire sector. A division of Core Worlds Army personnel turned Marine. I waited patiently for my monster to explain, and he did. As much as I was allowed to know. Hugo gave an overview of what has been happening since Marc sent them out here almost 7 months ago. Then there were the Army personnel. An entire Division, almost 19,000 people, came in those other ships out there to liberate this place. Which was nothing more than scientists and grown staff. I noticed the word slave was not used. Marc stopped the presentation and turned to me.

“There are numerous violations of the genetic modification laws, including the fact these people are sterile. All 300,000 of them.” He said. I didn’t know what to say. My mouth opened and closed multiple times before I just stayed silent. Marc sighed.

“I can’t fix them, but I can fix the next generation of their children and they have all taken the oath of our House.” I nodded at his statement. There was nothing else to say about that. Someone or someone’s broke the highest moral laws in creating these people as a labor force.

“How did you find this place?” I finally asked.

“It was a gift from the same people that told me about The Five Sectors. They decided it would be better if I took this over and ended the opposition.” And this is something I didn’t need to know, but he told me anyway. I was already aware of his reach into CONFED Intelligence. “Turning its resources towards our own needs. This system has more resources in it than the entirety of The Five Sectors. The only problem is we can never let anyone know it is here or who built it.” Marc said. It was the last three words that tipped me off. Who built it? Marc knew I had understood that. Intelligence doesn’t even know, and they know Marc will find out. Eventually. They already had two ships they were studying.

“How did you get total control?” I asked and Marc just waved towards the Army slash Marines.

“Intelligence was on the ground. It took us 2 months to plan and drop the teams in where needed. There was only a token force, because you couldn’t get past the fleet in orbit. The Ghost Fleet had no trouble removing that problem. We lost many people and there have been accidents as we try to understand the technology that built these stations.” Marc’s voice trailed off as I saw the pain that caused him. He probably ordered the investigations. Moving closer, I pulled Marc into a hug.

It wasn’t long before Jasmine made her presence known, waking Joachim in the meantime. Marc chuckled softly as we separated to care for them. The triad watched as we changed diapers, then fed them. Marc getting spit on as we burped them, making everyone laugh. After we put them down again, we continued our conversation. It was enlightening. Marc’s long and short-range plans. How much he wanted to send in support of the operation. What he thought he could sell safely to the outside, as they already had a sizable mining system here. Complete from miners to refiners. A few months of upgrades and the shipyards could be back online. Which I know is something Marc wants. Then there was the planet itself. Haven. Bolthole Research and Development Project was given to the science side of things. He introduced me to the current management, which he said would be changing. A necessity with everyone coming here.

An hour after we put the kids down, Marc eased them into the stroller as I had the changing bag. Taking me to a conference room as he warned me this was going Sector Wide. When we stepped in, I was shocked at the sight. 12 people stood waiting for us. Each was different, but the two stuck out. They didn’t have two arms. They had four. Marc stopped and lifted Joachim out of the stroller, handing him to me. All eyes followed every movement as he also picked up Jasmine and began to speak.

“Hello everyone. It’s good to see you again, in person this time. As promised, I brought my mate, Adam, and our children. The first of many we plan on having. They are created from us, by us, and are twins. One male, one female.” Marc turned to me. “Adam, this is Micha.” Marc went around the room as we walked. Greeting everyone as he introduced us. Letting them see the children close up.

“Your Specialists say that we can have children the same way you do. How soon can we start?” Asked Micha, one of the four armed males.

“That is what the team wants to talk about. I am thinking that after the training program completes in 6 months that you should be able to start on a limited scale at first. Then ramp up the number of children over the next five to ten years. That should give the Specialists time to train more people to help.” Marc said. Micha nodded approvingly.

Marc

I had met all these people before over the Holovid Comms I did. It took me a few months to get them to stop calling me My Lord. They still bow to me though, even with me telling them not to. I sighed internally. This meeting lasted over two hours and involved us stopping to change and feeding the kids. As I told Adam. This is all going out sector wide for all the Havenites to view. Adam took the time to teach a few of them how to hold a baby as I was demonstrating burping and the inevitable spit up that follows. I like to think it gave them a good idea of what to expect when you have children. Meaning what I said about starting with a few people first and building up over the years. There is no way that we could handle 10 or 50 thousand children in the first year. Maybe they could handle a thousand and work it up from there.

Adam let me push the stroller and he walked alongside of me with his hand on my lower back.

“That was interesting. Let me see the projections once we get back on board the ship.”

“Of course, dear. We’ll have to come out here more often. They enjoyed seeing us in person.” I said.

“Three times they tried to call me, My Lord.”

“I’ve been dealing with that since I first started to communicate with them. It may take years to get them to stop. I had it added to the training program.” Adam nodded.

“The same program that we use for new arrivals, with added information and histories they should know?” Marc nodded in the affirmative.

Adam

It’s been five months since we went out to The Unknown Sector. We just finished another holovid conference with them and I am as impressed as Marc at how well things are going out there. Hugo has hinted he wants us to come out for the first child in three months. Marc has been asked to be a Starparent. So we are most likely going. Deciding it was time, I took Marc’s hand and spoke, “Walk with me please.” He smiled that half grin of his that told me he knew where I was taking him.

“Of course dear.” He said with a smile. Out of the suite and around to where it all began with the taking of our genetic material. We entered Aidan’s office, and he hugged us both. Then hit a button and the HoloTable came to life as we watched. Two more. Another set of twins. I looked at Marc and smiled. I knew the genetic mix as I had ordered it. We watched as they grew and the holovid stopped at age 16.

“I’m ready again.” I said as I rubbed his hand across my stomach. He looked into my eyes and I locked on them. There was emotion, love and vast amounts of control there.

“Are you sure you’re ready for another two monster juniors?” He asked with a hint of excitement in his voice.

“Oh yes. I’m ready for another set of monster juniors. They are just as loving as my monster.” He smiled as he leaned up to kiss me.

“Then let’s make the family bigger, baby.” I nodded to Aidan. He hugged us both, and I thought I could see his eyes tear a little after I gave him the children’s names. Bella and Lucas. Marc’s eyes lit up as he hugged me.

“You better Comm her and let her know she’s coming.” I nodded as I held him tight.

Just like the last two, these were a mix of us and when they were separated to be seeded, the final form was chosen during the procedure. This holovid was how the AI said our children would look according to the final form the mixture took after separation. Just like Joachim and Jasmine, only we knew how they would look when they grew up. Obviously, we made good babies by the looks of the first four. At this rate, all of our children would be born before we hit our early thirties as long as we stayed at the 10 children we wanted. This means once again the Security Service was expanding. Nine months from now, we will need another two guardians for our children. That is Marc’s department, and I am sure he already has it taken care of it, just like the surrogate parental team. After we exited Aidan’s office and returned to our suite, I motioned Marc to the couch and tapped out a Link. It took five minutes to connect to Bella.

“Hello Adam. Marc. How are the two of you?” I spoke as Marc snuggled back into me, holding the tablet up for both of us to see.

“We thought we better give you a warning.” She looked confused.

“A warning?” Marc spoke first.

“Yes Bella. We have learned that our children are part monster and know how to projectile spit up. We thought it was best to give you 9 months’ notice.” The expression that crossed her face would have been comical as she finally figured out what we were really saying. She lit up like a sun.

“She’s coming?” Marc nodded.

“Yes. Bella Alexander-Knight and Lucas Alexander-Knight are on their way.”

Adam added, “You are expected to have cleared two weeks off your schedule in 9 months to be here to greet her upon her arrival.” Her hands covered her mouth as the tears started to fall.

“Another set of twins?” She managed to get out. We both nodded. “Nothing would be able to keep me away.” I kissed the top of Marc’s head as he replied.

“I thought you would say that. Your room is already ready for you. Anytime you want Bella.” She nodded as she wiped her eyes.

“You two are always making me cry.” Adam smiled.

“Always happy tears?” She nodded. We talked some more than disconnected.